A New Pandora Vase

Percy Gardner

doi:10.2307/623861

A New Pandora Vase

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Percy Gardner

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Scenes from the history of Pandora are rare in works of Greek art. There have at present been published, so far as I am aware, only five representations of her, in two reliefs and three vases. These all represent her birth or her coming into being. All the vases are in the British Museum. To these I have to add a fourth vase (Pl. I.), recently presented to the Ashmolean Museum by Mr. Edmund Oldfield, and bringing before us a fresh scene from the interesting history of the strange being made by the gods for the delusion and betrayal of men.

The tale of Pandora, as it appears in Hesiod, is so well known that I need only glance at its main features. When Prometheus had stolen for men fire from the gods, Zeus, determining to punish him, caused Hephaestus to make of earth a beauteous woman, whom, the goddesses adorned with ornaments, but in whom Hermes implanted a deceitful heart and a treacherous tongue.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 21 , November 1901 , pp. 1 - 9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/623861 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1901

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^{page 1 note 1} I omit the Praenestine cista, M. d. I. vi. 39. It is difficult to understand what scenes of the story are here depicted; and one would like to be assured of the genuineness of the cista.

^{page 1 note 2} From the collection of Count de Prez, Crouel, Sale Cat. 1869Google Scholar, No. 151. Find-spot not recorded.

^{page 1 note 3} Michaelis, , Parthenon, Pl. XV. 1, p. 275Google Scholar.

^{page 2 note 1} Jahrbuch des Inst. v. p. 114.

^{page 2 note 2} Gerhard, Festged. an Winckelmann, Pl. I: Harrison, , Mythol. and Mon. of Anc. Athens, p. 450Google Scholar.

^{page 2 note 3} Rhyton from Paphos, , J.H.S. ix. 221Google Scholar.

^{page 2 note 4} J.H.S. xi. Pl. XI.

^{page 4 note 1} Vasen mit Lieblingsnamen, p. 117.

^{page 4 note 2} J.H.S. xix. 205; xx. 99.

^{page 4 note 3} Overbeck, Kunstmyth. Pl. V.

^{page 5 note 1} Roscher, , Lexikon, p. 1306Google Scholar.

^{page 5 note 2} Overbeck, , Kunstmyth. Pl. XVIII. 15Google Scholar.

^{page 5 note 3} Baumeister, , Denkm. p. 423Google Scholar.

^{page 5 note 4} Baumeister, p. 1118; M. d. I. iv. 19.

^{page 5 note 5} Röm. Mittheil. xiv. Pl. 7.

^{page 5 note 6} Miss Harrison writes: ‘She rises up through the χῶμα γῆς the omphalos, the grave-mound, which is coated with the usual stucco.’ The presence of the trees, however, seems to show that the mound is not a mere stucco erection.

^{page 5 note 7} Pp. 194 and foll.; cf. Röm. Mütheil. xii. 4.

^{page 5 note 8} The published representations of this vase are incorrect: the spectators arc Satyrs. Robert, , Arch. Märchen, p. 199Google Scholar.

^{page 5 note 9} Jahrbuch des arch. Inst. 1891, p. 113.

^{page 5 note 10} Ibid. p. 116.

^{page 6 note 1} J. H. S. 1900, p. 107.

^{page 6 note 2} Πανδώρα ἤ Σφυροκόποι

^{page 7 note 1} Paus. ix. 27, 2.

^{page 8 note 1} See Welcker, , Griech. Götterlehre, i. 759Google Scholar, &c.

^{page 8 note 2} J.H.S. ix. 351.

^{page 9 note 1} Die Sintfluthsagen.

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